So a Boston-area fugitive "flees" to Portland-area Maine, all the while changing only his first name. At least put a few countries of distance between yourself and undergo a sex change or something. Make it interesting, you dull, boring, rapey f*ck.

Killer Cars:So a Boston-area fugitive "flees" to Portland-area Maine, all the while changing only his first name. At least put a few countries of distance between yourself and undergo a sex change or something. Make it interesting, you dull, boring, rapey f*ck.

Killer Cars:So a Boston-area fugitive "flees" to Portland-area Maine, all the while changing only his first name. At least put a few countries of distance between yourself and undergo a sex change or something. Make it interesting, you dull, boring, rapey f*ck.

And he was still able to dodge the law for 35 years... will be interesting to find out what finally gave him away.

Benjamin Orr:Killer Cars: So a Boston-area fugitive "flees" to Portland-area Maine, all the while changing only his first name. At least put a few countries of distance between yourself and undergo a sex change or something. Make it interesting, you dull, boring, rapey f*ck.

In the olden days it was much easier to change your identity.

Don't ask me how I know this.

No problem Don Draper..... I assume you mean even late 70s when this guy did it being "olden", since he was successful for 35 years.

dletter:Benjamin Orr: Killer Cars: So a Boston-area fugitive "flees" to Portland-area Maine, all the while changing only his first name. At least put a few countries of distance between yourself and undergo a sex change or something. Make it interesting, you dull, boring, rapey f*ck.

In the olden days it was much easier to change your identity.

Don't ask me how I know this.

No problem Don Draper..... I assume you mean even late 70s when this guy did it being "olden", since he was successful for 35 years.

dletter:And he was still able to dodge the law for 35 years... will be interesting to find out what finally gave him away.

True. Also, he could've just kept his legal name if he relocated damn near anywhere further away from Portland. If the Soviets worked with the martians and installed advanced weaponry silos somewhere north of Bangor, we may never have found out and they'd still probably be there. Northern Maine is spooky nothingness.

Killer Cars:So a Boston-area fugitive "flees" to Portland-area Maine, all the while changing only his first name. At least put a few countries of distance between yourself and undergo a sex change or something. Make it interesting, you dull, boring, rapey f*ck.

Had he moved further inland in Maine they never would have found him. That's better than leaving the country, it's like getting in a time machine back to before the crime was even committed.

dletter:Benjamin Orr: Killer Cars: So a Boston-area fugitive "flees" to Portland-area Maine, all the while changing only his first name. At least put a few countries of distance between yourself and undergo a sex change or something. Make it interesting, you dull, boring, rapey f*ck.

In the olden days it was much easier to change your identity.

Don't ask me how I know this.

No problem Don Draper..... I assume you mean even late 70s when this guy did it being "olden", since he was successful for 35 years.

Yes the 70s count as the olden days now. Just ask any college student for confirmation.

Considering most perpetrators of the worst crimes, including, have little hope for deterrence and rehabilitation. And since this man has proven by your measure that he doesn't require confinement, he and his victim deserve that justice is done.

Benjamin Orr:In the olden days it was much easier to change your identity.

Don't ask me how I know this.

When I turned 16 I need an SS card to work - you didn't get one a birth in those days - so I went to town hall with my school ID and got my birth certificate. I only need my birth certificate to get the SS card and I only need the SS card to get my drivers license. With my drivers license I got credit cards and a passport. Every bit of ID I have started as a laminated picture with my school name an logo on a card. If I had been thinking I would have done it twenty times more.

Cheron:Benjamin Orr:In the olden days it was much easier to change your identity.

Don't ask me how I know this.

When I turned 16 I need an SS card to work - you didn't get one a birth in those days - so I went to town hall with my school ID and got my birth certificate. I only need my birth certificate to get the SS card and I only need the SS card to get my drivers license. With my drivers license I got credit cards and a passport. Every bit of ID I have started as a laminated picture with my school name an logo on a card. If I had been thinking I would have done it twenty times more.

You needed to do a little research and find birth certificates for kids that died very young. That's how the scam worked. You get legit ID's for dead people your age, or a little older so you can buy booze.

dletter:Bastard_Lunatic: Guy kept out of trouble for 35 years. Kind of torn on this one. If the purpose of prison is rehabilitation what is it going to achieve now?

Well, as far as we know... maybe he just got better after his first screw-up.

thank you. Given the hell most victims are put through today, I can't imagine how many assaults went unreported in the early eighties for fear of having your entire private life thrown out as evidence of whether you deserved it or not. It also says that he had a wife and children. Could be he found a a woman that took the brunt of his abuse for 35 years. But, as others have said, rehabilitation is not the sole purpose of imprisonment and telling a rape victim "well, we lost the guy...but as long as promises not to do it again, you're ok with it, right?" doesn't seem plausible.

Bastard_Lunatic:Guy kept out of trouble for 35 years. Kind of torn on this one. If the purpose of prison is rehabilitation what is it going to achieve now?

Well, that's kind of in question now, isn't it? I'd wager that he's a person of interest in several local unsolved crimes now that the connection has been made, statistically "kept out of trouble" and "wanted fugitive" don't have a strong correlation there.

"How do you know that? He could have just gotten better at not being caught."And he could have been a fine, upstanding citizen. I doubt he was squeaky but it's a lot harder to rape when you have a family to lie to as opposed to being in a single-room apartment or wherever the hell he used to live.

Benjamin Orr:Squeebee: He's 52, been on the run for 34 years, so he was 18 years old when he allegedly raped three women in his own home? Was it statutory rape from before the Romeo & Juliet laws?

You should probably read the article again. Maybe parse a few commas or something.

"A convicted rapist from Rockland who fled Massachusetts in 1979 and has spent the last 34 years on the Massachusetts State Police Most Wanted list was captured last night in Gorham, Maine, where he had started a new life under a fake name with a wife, two children, and a granddaughter."

Bastard_Lunatic:Cheron: Benjamin Orr:In the olden days it was much easier to change your identity.

Don't ask me how I know this.

When I turned 16 I need an SS card to work - you didn't get one a birth in those days - so I went to town hall with my school ID and got my birth certificate. I only need my birth certificate to get the SS card and I only need the SS card to get my drivers license. With my drivers license I got credit cards and a passport. Every bit of ID I have started as a laminated picture with my school name an logo on a card. If I had been thinking I would have done it twenty times more.

You needed to do a little research and find birth certificates for kids that died very young. That's how the scam worked. You get legit ID's for dead people your age, or a little older so you can buy booze.

I was figuring this guy went from from G Irving to another G Irving because he happened to have a family member roughly his age who died young. He's know enough background to be able to talk his way past the records clerk, get the SS card, and after that he's good to go. Although really he should have headed for the West Coast and eventually a foreign country. Just be an expat teaching English in Japan or some inland city in China and sending a tax form back to Uncle Sam every year. Stay off social media and all that mess and figure the odds of the MSP making it to Osaka or Wuhan are about zero.